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Sounding

noun

A measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line.

The act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line).

adjective

Appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms. Synonym: looking. "A most disagreeable looking character" , "Angry-looking" , "Liquid-looking" , "Severe-looking policemen on noble horses" , "Fine-sounding phrases" , "Taken in by high-sounding talk"

Having volume or deepness. "The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"

Making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form.

Sound

verb

(past & past part. sounded; pres. part. sounding)

Appear in a certain way.

Make a certain noise or sound. Synonym: go. "The gun went 'bang'"

Give off a certain sound or sounds.

Announce by means of a sound.

Utter with vibrating vocal chords. Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice.

Cause to sound. "Sound a certain note"

Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line. Synonym: fathom.

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"Sounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... would of been scared myself if I'd a-been ketched that-a-way like Henry was, and the perfessor's voice sounding like you was chopping ice every time he spoke. I seen the perfessor didn't want to have no blood on the carpet without he had to have it, but I seen he was making up his mind about something, too. ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... fellow-subjects who are natives of Great Britain. If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representative where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves?" Very formidable questions, couched in high-sounding phrases, and representing well enough in form and in substance the state of mind of colonial assemblies in the summer of 1764 in respect to the Sugar Act and the ...

— The Eve of the Revolution - A Chronicle of the Breach with England, Volume 11 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Carl Becker

... involuntary movement towards her, then, checked himself abruptly and stood looking down at her in silence. From the ball-room there floated out the strains of the latest fox-trot, sounding curiously cheap and tawdry as they cut across the deep, almost solemn intensity that prevailed in the quiet room where a man had just stripped his soul naked to the eyes of the woman he loved and now stood as ...

— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler

... everything pass off pleasantly, invited guests will bring or send their own strawberries and cream, which I shall be happy to sell to them at a slight advance. There are a great many improvements which the garden needs; among them a sounding-board, so that the neighbors' children can hear when I tell them to get a little farther off from the currant-bushes. I should also like a selection from the ten commandments, in big letters, posted up conspicuously, ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... he got up early and slipped out of the town. All day long he would stroll in the great pine-woods or lie on the dunes by the shore, with the murmur of the sea sounding through his half- slumber. He ate like a dog whatever he could get that was eatable, without particularly thinking of what it consisted. The glitter of the sun on the water, and the poignant scent of the pine-trees, and the first rising of the sluggish sap which came with ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

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